Or as it is better known, "The Wall". According to some chap named 'bluey' over at Redstate, anonymous vandals have damaged some of the vertical black stones with an oily substance.

Classy. Real classy. There's never an opportunity to use a Louisville Slugger on these people.

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Cliff May has a post up at the NROC describing something our friends at moveon.org are up to. In short, they apparently intend to run an ad in today's New York Times asking "General Petraeus or General Betray us?" This is, of course, a pre-emptive strike against whatever conclusions General Petraeus may draw in his much-awaited report to the Congress upon military operations in Iraq.

I concur in Mr. May's question---are they questioning a general's patriotism? If we on the right were to do this, or even hint that the political left suffers from a deficit of love of country, they'd go ballistic. Meanwhile, they go all out and suggest that a commanding general not named Benedict Arnold will betray American interests by "cooking the books for the White House", and that's OK.

The lone consolation here is that moveon seems to have a tin ear when it comes to doing anything other than revving up its foam-at-the-mouth formations---recall the Bush ist Hitler ad they ran a few years ago---so perhaps this'll backfire and they'll find themselves looking at the usual failures and bemoaning La Pelosi.

Paraphrasing an old remark made by former President Richard Nixon, "When the liberals do it, that means it is not immoral." It must be nice.
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Additional coverage is provided by the Weekly Standard. The executive director of Vets for Freedom states,

Let's be clear: MoveOn.org is suggesting that General Petraeus has 'betrayed' his country. This is disgusting. To attack as a traitor an American general commanding forces in war because his 'on the ground' experience does not align with MoveOn.org's political objectives is utterly shameful. It shows contempt for America's military leadership, as well as for the troops who have confidence in him, as our fellow soldiers in Iraq certainly do.

Ha ha.

EDIT: Byron York has a piece on the 'Betray us' campaign here.

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According to the AFP/France24, the wreck of HMAS Sydney may have been found.

Searchers equipped with a grappling hook and an underwater camera found a previously undiscovered wreck off of Cape Inscription. Their observations of various details of the wreck lead them to believe that it is the light cruiser in question.

The Sydney was lost with all hands after a 19 November 1941 battle against the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran. Six hundred and forty-five men were aboard.

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By now, everyone's probably heard of what went on in the UK.

It appears that the Islamists have managed to muff this one as well, courtesy of incompetence in their personnel and bravery on the part of English police. It goes without saying that thanks to Almighty God will be said in the evening prayer tonight. We may have thrown off the Empire over two hundred years ago, but that doesn't mean that I retain considerable sentiment and favor towards them.

After all, the British Isles may be a 'shadow front' in the war on Islamist violence. Better luck next time, you ignorant cretins! No virgins for you!

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Three-time ace Brigadier General Robin Olds, USAF (ret) has died at his home in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

General Olds served in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam and was credited with 16 kills over the course of that period. He is also given credit for the success of Operation BOLO, wherein the USAF exercised some sleight-of-hand to make North Vietnamese interceptors attack a formation of F-4C/D Phantom IIs instead of their usual targets, F-105D Thunderchiefs. If I understand it correctly, the F-4s flew together in a formation usually reserved for the F-105s and acted like the Republic monsters.

The North Vietnamese, hoping to disrupt the inbound strike, swarmed up in their Soviet-supplied fighters. Much to their dismay, Robin Olds' 8th TFW was waiting on them. According to the Air Force, 7 MiG-21 Fishbed interceptors were destroyed. Tough luck, Charlie.

General Olds was famous for his handlebar mustache, described somewhere as being of the Otto von Bismarck variety.

Thank you for your service, General.

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Victor Davis Hanson has a nice article up at NRO about Operation OVERLORD. It is worth reading, in my opinion.

A valuable quote:

Nevertheless, the Normandy campaign reminds us that war is by nature horrific, fraught with foolish error — and only won by the side that commits the least number of mistakes. Our grandfathers knew that. So they pressed on as best they could, convinced that they needn’t be perfect, only good enough, to win.

Worth remembering in the current contest.

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Our intrepid Pan Am correspondent from Florida, Carlos W, has some thoughts on the current Iranian mess, backdated about a week or so. See here for full details.

The rub of it is that I can't make heads or tails of what to believe. While yes, I believe that the Islamic Republic's leaders have been compounding interest on a whippin' since 1979, I'm also not eager to jump into another war in that worthless region of the planet. I also don't believe in the value of sanctions or "the international community expressing its concern".

Therefore, I share what Carlos views as our policymakers' potential mindset:

[N]ervous because they really don't have any good options with Iran, and don't know what to do about the situation.

This means that I am happy to hear the occasional report that the nominal political head of the Islamic Republic may have talked himself into a hole. One can only hope.

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This has made the rounds of the blogs before, but I figured I'd repost it just for the heck of it, since I've got nothing else today:

The F-102 in Vietnam

It's a long article by the folks at aerospaceweb.org talking about what the Convair F-102A Delta Dagger did in Vietnam. This was produced back when the story was "Bush coward in old worthless aircraft; Kerry in swift boats like Captain Willard". The truth about the F-102A was something different than that, but hey, who's counting?

As a one-time fan of the Delta Dagger, I figured that I could post it out of respect for my second favorite 1950s fighter manufacturer. (Of course, Lockheed with its F-104 Starfighter reigns supreme.)

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2102 - Talk of the lighter footprint, loss of political gains Iraqis had gained. Holy shrine, blah. They've got a million of them. The situation in Iraq is unacceptable to him and this country.

2103 - Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me. C-SPAN is cutting in and out in audio.

2104 - No magic formula for success in Iraq. Failure in Iraq strengthens extremist Islam and its groups, as would be Iran in its nuclear quest. Further attacks could result; 11 September 2001 showed what a foreign refuge could do
to us.

Dozed off.

2117 - Expect more casualties. Believes strategy will work. "No surrender ceremony on the deck of a battleship". About bloody time someone says this!

2105 - 80% of all sectarian violence is within 30 miles of Baghdad. Attempts to secure Baghdad failed; not enough troops and too many restrictions. Military commanders looked at a new Iraqi plan and believe in it.

2106 - New military district of urban Baghdad. Iraqi police to be replaced or supplanted by Iraqi national military. We will change our strategy to help the Iraqis contain sectarian violence; more than 20,000 additional troops will be sent. Five brigades for Baghdad, embedded with the Iraqis for security operations.

2107 - Previously, terrorists returned after we left. Apparently, now the plan is to take, clear, and hold. Also, Iraqi-American forces will ignore political or sectarian interference. POTUS says "our commitment not open-ended"; Iraq could lose our support. PM Maliki understands this.

2108 - No safe havens for criminals. No immediate end to suicide attacks etc. Enemy will hope to fill our TV screens with images of death. (So what?) Breathing space for Iraqi government. "Most Sunni and Shiites want to live together", hah. I think they'd rather kill each other.

2110 - Sharing of oil revenues among all Iraqis---shouldn't this be spent on reconstruction?---and Baghdad's responsibility for security in all provinces by November 2007.

2111 - . . .

2112 - Will continue to pursue al-Qaeda and foreign fighters. Al-Qaeda home base is Anbar province; most violent outside the capital. We have captured data suggesting al-Qaeda wants to knock out the Anbar government. Tribal leaders have recently showed interest in going after al-Qaeda. Four thousand new US troops for Anbar.

"We will not allow [al-Qaeda] to re-establish a safe haven in Anbar."

2113 - Iran and Syria allowing terrorists and insurgents to use their territory. Iran supplying attacks on our troops. Additional carrier battlegroup to the region. Work with Turkey and Iraq to solve border problems.

2119 - All involved have a responsibility to explain how their path leads to victory. New bipartisan study group to be led by Senator Lieberman to tinker with this; first step is expanding the armed forces.

Oops, I went to sleep again. I doubt the Cindy Sheehans of the world will be convinced, but I thought it was OK. I hope this works.

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It is now known that North Korea (d/b/a the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) has claimed to have detonated a nuclear weapon. What is not known (to me, at least) is their larger point in doing so. At first blush, the point of a detonation is to figure out if the things works and to gather valuable data for determining yield and other such metrics.

That being said, the testing of a nuclear device does not occur in a vacuum. It is a political event as well. It makes a statement to the world community as a whole. So the North Koreans know that their weapon works and they have also said something to the world community. But what?

The reflexive reaction for this non-Korea scholar is, "A middle finger directed at Washington", but this may not be the case. It's not always about us, although it is not wrong to at least consider the possibility that it is. Comes now an alternative theory, one that I would not have come up with on my own:

Greg Pollowitz, a financial man who also writes for National Review, says in a public message to K.J. Lopez:

There's another possibility that isn't being talked about regarding why North Korea chose today to fire off a nuke. What if if North Korea's test was done more as a protest of a South Korean, Ban Ki-Moon, from heading the UN and had little to do with US foreign policy decisions?

There is more at the original entry; I suggest reading it for background. The theory is not inherently unreasonable; after all, another large Communist state in the region is very fond of using military tests and/or exercises to exert foreign influence on a very nearby state. The Communist Chinese have a reputation for attempting to intimidate the Republic of China every so often, and I believe that this reputation is well earned. The country that the DPRK is closest to (in my mind) is the PRC, and it is not impossible that Pyongyang would steal a page from Beijing's playbook. Thus, Mr. Pollowitz's theory is valid as of 11:20 here in the East.

I sincerely hope that the reported DPRK nuclear test was more a domestic policy statement aimed at Seoul, and not a foreign policy statement aimed at Washington, D.C.

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I'm watching the [i]NBC Nightly News[/i] and they report that our missing soldiers have been murdered by the al-Qaeda forces in Iraq. An Iraqi general reports that these two men were "brutally tortured". If I understand the CNN story properly, the remains of our men were damaged such that DNA testing will be necessary to confirm the identifications. Meanwhile, some worthless Islamist group named 'the Mujahedeen Shura Council' has claimed responsibility. I do not know who this group is, but I suppose they were acting to try and get back on the scoreboard after our success against al-Zarqawi.

NBC News suggested that the work of the MSC may have been the responsibility of a new man to lead the al-Qaeda forces. I didn't catch his name, but it really doesn't matter; hopefully we'll send him to join al-Zarqawi soon enough.

I regret the loss of two American soldiers to the bestial savages of the anti-coalition forces. If all goes well, perhaps we will avenge their deaths.

UPDATE: K.J. Lopez has provided us with an article that provides some background on the new man, courtesy of N.K. Gvosdev and a guest poster. Abu Ayyub al-Masri, I hope we've already got an LGB with your name on it.

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I'll be honest: Grim Beorn is one of the bloggers who can raise the hairs on the back of my neck. His piece on heroic epic warfighting was the first thing I'd seen of his, and it was a doozy.

With that in mind, comes now his latest piece, Knights of the White Cross. It concerns the issue of Denmark and the recent efforts against it in the Arab-Islamic world. There are those amongst the blogging community who have taken up the banner of Denmark due to the publication of cartoon images deemed blasphemous (or something) by Islamic peoples. Grim himself describes it as a "cause I am bound by my heart to support".¹

That isn't all that Grim says, though, and it's here that the first hairs stand up, the lips draw tightly, and I sort of look away from the screen:

It won't be forever before the wrathful of the Muslim world notice this. Fate has brought us to where we thought we would not go: we now openly ride under a Crusader's flag.

This is an unpleasant realization. I can cavalierly quip about how this ought to be considered the sequel to "La Reconquista" and so forth, but that's all it is, cavalier quips. Not quite whistling past the graveyard, but not a serious response. I would, in fact, prefer that the billion plus Islamics not think we're on the Next Crusade, because that would play into the propaganda paradigm that I've heard about, where the (Christian) West looks with ravenous eyes upon the holy lands of Islam, or something like that. Such could, theoretically, energize new legions of devotees willing to give their lives in latter-day kamikaze attacks.

Grim also asks if perhaps Deus vult? I don't know how to answer that. Part of me says "I hope not"; what another part of me says is uncertain. He is comfortable to characterize the current struggle in a manner which I am distinctly not. For my part, I am most at ease seeing this struggle through the lens of a cold-eyed exercise in state power and simple theory. "You wish us dead and have taken actions towards that end. Witness the reaction, the response of the most powerful nation on the planet." Nothing more, nothing less.

Grim continues:

I suggest you all prepare for what Fate has brought us. We remain free to choose what we will do with the legacy that this flag will bind to our cause. If we are to be Crusaders, let us take the Cross in righteousness.

It's things like this that make me want to listen for the Hans Zimmer score playing in the background. You know, "Patres!" "Maximus!" "Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops..." The problem is that if I buy into his theory that this is a fated circumstance, my response is not righteousness. Rather, it is ruthlessness, moderated only by the notions of some day being required to explain myself to God and an ends-oriented analysis that asks, "Does this serve our interests in victory, or not?"

Perhaps it is because I am most decidedly not a warrior, either in the figurative or literal sense. Perhaps Grim speaks a language I do not understand, and it would not surprise me if he did. He speaks of a peace between warriors, that of Richard and Saladin. I think of an irreversible, unquestionable victory for the United States and their allies. At some level, my viewpoint may be influenced by what Walter Russell Mead calls the Jacksonian tradition.

Further analysis and reflection largely fail me at this point, because I'm remarkably incapable of putting further words to electrons on this subject. Suffice it to say that I decidedly don't like the idea of taking up the Crusaders' flag. Something seems wrong with it, and I can't articulate why. I definitely am not some weak post-modern cosmopolitan secularist afraid of making value judgments, so it isn't that, but I wonder what it is. Reader response is, as always, welcome.

ADDENDUM: I think I may have thought of a preliminary reason why I am uncomfortable with taking up the flag of the Crusaders. It is simple, and perhaps even at odds with my prior statement of endorsing ruthlessness. I am reminded of the awful things that were done by "our" people---the sacking of Constantinople and the massacre in Jerusalem---and would prefer not to be associated with that. We have enough baggage of our own without having to deal with the historical excesses of eight hundred years ago.

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Hopefully the SAS are planning some sort of retaliatory strike even now. I look forward to the day when the name of bin Laden and his al-Qaeda are but footnotes to history, dimly remembered problems from the early part of the century.

NB: John Podhoretz, have you no shame? A bunch of savages bloody the nose of the Mother Country and you want to blow about how great you think George W. Bush is. As Joseph Welch once put it, "Have you no sense of decency, sir?"

UPDATE: Courtesy of KJL@NROC, the oddly-named (for a Democrat!) Bull Moose suggests that the Union Jack be displayed, for we are all Britons now. I wholeheartedly concur. Without further ado:

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Given that the 262's engines were so finicky, I daresay that a P-51D or similar aircraft would be better at handling a rapid throttling up. To corrupt a quote from Episode IV, "Nobody worries about destroying a piston engine by rapid throttling up." "That's because piston engines don't overheat, weaken the turbine blades through that heat, throw a blade and promptly garbage the engine when they're throttled up. Jumo 004Bs are known to do that."

I snickered at the irony of a jet fighter being at the mercy of a piston-engined fighter in terms of performance in that particular circumstance. I then remembered another snicker story from the Cold War, one that was embarrassing to the RAF. It had to do with the Panavia Tornado F.3 ADV, the premier RAF interceptor during the 1980s.

One of the ADV's jobs was to intercept and escort various Soviet long-range reconnaisance platforms that would fly down from (ostensibly) the Kola Peninsula for a variety of missions. One of the more frequent types of aircraft that the RAF would see was the Tu-95 'Bear', in varying configurations. The Bear is a bomber with swept wings and turboprop engines, much like one of the design concepts for the B-52 Stratofortress.

As I remembered it, there was some situation where a Tu-95 was capable of escaping a Tornado ADV, and it involved acceleration. A quick bit of Google research confirmed my memories, and here's what was said:

It was stated in this newsgroup sometime back that a favourite way (for a large turbo prop) to get rid of a tailing interceptor is slow down a hundred knots or so, (by changing the prop angle @full engine RPM), forcing the 'ceptor to spool down a bit and/or pop some flaps, then change the prop angle back so as to accelerate away from the jet. Which has to use buckets of fuel spooling its motor back up (or afterburning). Repeat a few times & the jet gets bingo fuel.

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It has been reported that the ADV needs a partial light on one afterburner to keep up with a Tu-95 Bear, for Chrissake! Apparently, a favourite trick of Bear pilots was/is to fly relatively slowly at fine pitch, let the ADV hold station, the coarsen the pitch and wait 2 minutes for the ADV to catch up.

That's probably a useless tactic in war because the ADV would have already fired on the Bear using medium range AAMs like the Sparrow or Sky Flash. Nevertheless, you've got to laugh at what is a very amusing parlor trick. Heh heh heh.

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The Me 262 was the world's first combat-deployed jet fighter, developed during World War II as a strike fighter at the orders of Adolf Hitler. Luckily for the Eighth Air Force's daylight formations of bombers, the Me 262 wasn't developed immediately for interception operations, and thus took longer to get into service for that purpose.

Indeed, it was lucky for us that the entire German air war was on its knees by the time of the Me 262's introduction. Between a chronic lack of spare parts, fuel, trained pilots, and support infrastructure, the Me 262 could not be used to its full capability. The thing needed cover on its takeoff and landing cycles because it wasn't that maneuverable and took a while to perform either cycle. USAAF/RAF fighters got good at bouncing the 262 on its landing cycles, where it was largely defenseless.

I doubt that the course of the war in Europe would have been changed had the 262 been available earlier as an interceptor, but it certainly could have made our final victory much more expensive. A contrary view exists; apparently, the Eighth Air Force (and other heavy bombardment units) in the ETO were on the verge of cancelling operations at various points due to losses inflicted by the Luftwaffe's anti-aircraft artillery and fighters; with the 262 running around, the threshold for cancellation of the daylight effort might've been met, with unknown results for the war in Europe.

UPDATE, 23 JUNE 2005: The Superintendent of The Cold Spring Shops has a pleasant mention of this article, as does John over in the original TBG entry.

I'd like to revise and extend my remarks on the 262's shortcomings.

The primary problem with the Me 262 weapons system was its powerplant. This is not uncommon; the General Dynamics/Grumman F-111B died in part due to problems with the powerplant, and the Grumman F-14A Tomcat's TF30 powerplant was a piece of junk.

The 262 used the Junkers Jumo 004B turbojet engine as its powerplant; this was both good and bad. Good in that it was the first mass-produced jet engine, and bad for the same reasons. It personified Dr. Eldon Tyrell's (of Blade Runner fame) notion that "[t]he light that burns twice as bright burns half as long".

The 004B was a persnickety engine; software engineers might've called it a beta. For starters, it only had an operational life of 10-25 hours before the thing was ready for scrap or serious maintenance. I'm not sure what modern jet engines get, but you might burn up a pair of these things a week. That's not good.

Another problem with the 004B stemmed from the state of German metallurgy at the time; they couldn't mass-produce the kinds of metals necessary to make it a tough engine, and so they had to substitute lesser-quality materials for the manufacture of the turbine blades.

So it's got engines made by the lowest bidder. So what? So, you have to handle them accordingly.

Mishandling of the 004B---defined by rapid increases of the throttle---meant that the cheap turbine blades could break and be ingested by the rest of the engine. If you've seen The Phantom Menace, you know what happens when a pit droid (or a wrench tossed by Sebulba) goes into a pod racer's engine. This holds true on Earth as well; your engine becomes an expensive paperweight and you've got a potential fire on your hands. Additionally, the 004B did not spool up---provide additional power---easily. There was a fair amount of lag time between the pilot's advance of the throttle and the engine's response.

Keep these two facts in mind: It doesn't like to accelerate quickly and it takes its sweet time when you try.

What's this got to do with the takeoff and landing cycles, you say? Everything. Takeoff and landing will both require additional time, something the combat pilot doesn't always have.

The 262 required a decent takeoff roll and you had to be nice to the thing during the entire period, climbing away from the runway in a smooth manner while throttling back if possible, to keep the engines happy. Not necessarily fatal under ideal circumstances, but with the USAAF & RAF running around, you might not get to do this.

Worse yet was the landing sequence: The 262 pilot would get into position for landing, and essentially be stuck low, slow, and unable to accelerate off his approach if Mustangs or Thunderbolts showed up. You see the essential dilemma for the 262 pilot: He can't really run away from the battle in a hurry , and has to focus on getting to ground. That's not a very healthy strategy for survival, and it apparently accounted for a fair piece of the Me 262 losses.

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That's right, the United States Navy engaged pirates on the high seas in 2005. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Gonzalez (DDG 66) was on patrol in the Indian Ocean when it received a distress call from a commercial freighter.

That's pretty nifty, even though our people did not actually kill any pirates. Alas, I was hoping they'd make someone walk the plank. At any rate, I suggest reading the referring article from No Such Blog for further details and a link to the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot's coverage of the event. If you go to the Gonzalez website, you'll find an MS-Word document file announcing the thing. What it says, I don't know; I'm a WordPerfect man.

Dip of the Jolly Roger flag to No Such Blog.

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Usually, the major birthday this time of year is that of Jesus Christ. However, we'll get a head-start on that and celebrate the 26th birthday of an American soldier. Why is this utterly significant? The man has, through the grace of God and modern medicine, managed to survive against that bestial disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob, which goes after the brain like the Red Army after helpless civilians. His death was essentially predicted to be some time before Christmas 2003, but he has held on, thanks in part (perhaps) to a new drug therapy.

Jen Martinez is covering the story of Staff Sergeant James Alford, United States Army. Keep him and his family in your prayers, people. Nobody deserves to die this kind of death.

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NBC News is whining about the fact that a Marine "apparently" shot an unarmed insurgent inside a mosque. This is apparently reason to suggest a trial and to start asking military law experts about the guilt of our obviously bloodthirsty and evil stormtroopers.

Message: I DON'T CARE.

So an Islamist was shot in Fallujah. So he might have been unarmed. So what?

I could absolutely care less about the supposed immorality of this Marine's actions; I'd much rather be giving the man a medal for heads-up thinking, especially against a suicidal enemy.

Bravo zulu to the unnamed Marine, curses to the NBC cameraman so eager to trip up our armed effort, and a 'hope you enjoy hell' to the dead Islamist.

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The following text was recovered from the copy desk at al-Jazeera, the Arab world's premiere satellite news channel. Many Bothans died to bring us this information.

"Brothers! A great victory has been won for our cause! We have struck a great blow against the Western invaders, by killing the leader of an insidious Western logistics network. With the death of CARE worker Margaret Hassan, we strike another blow for the re-establishment of the Caliphate and the perpetual reign of Islam uber alles. Er, over all. The infidel woman's organization, CARE---which is not to be confused with our American propaganda arm, CAIR---was guilty of distributing aid and relief to the suffering peoples of Iraq, and for this her sentence was death.

Meanwhile, in lesser news, a meaningless American victory was temporarily achieved in the unimportant city of Fallujah. There are no Americans in Fallujah. Even now, they are committing suicide upon the walls of the city. That is, they would be committing suicide, if they were in the city in the first place, which they are not. We now return you to our regular programming, "The Deep Love of Mohammed for His Camel".

This publication, of course, is readily impressed with the martial prowess of the Base of Jihad group, and commends them for their daring victory against a dangerous enemy. After all, it's very hard to put a pistol against the head of a blindfolded captive; it's one of the most difficult shots in the Terrorist Executions for Dirtbags handbook. Also, I'd like to commend Base of Jihad for knowing its strengths. Soldiers and Marines in Fallujah were too much, so they scaled back their goals to something those camel-buggering dirtbags could handle, like an outnumbered and outgunned old woman.

Prayers for Margaret Hassan and her family, and damnation for the Islamists responsible.

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From reports garnered off of CNN's live feed early yesterday morning, and subsequently verified here, over 500 of the enemy have been killed by our troops in Fallujah, while the bums have managed to kill 18 of ours. Our brave allies have sustained 5 dead, according to the aforementioned CNN report.

In any event, these numbers render a kill ratio of 22:1, rounded to the nearest whole number. This is a good start. I like seeing these sorts of numbers. Perhaps---although I am not hopeful---such statistics could be conveyed to the enemy in such a way that they would be convinced of the futility of resistance, and lay down their arms to contribute to the new Iraq. On the other hand, if they will not, then I wholly support running that number to somewhere north of 50:1. Ideally, the enemy would not have managed to kill any of our troops, but that is not the way war works, and I regret it.

Congratulations to our forces and those of our Iraqi allies. I'm proud of you; keep up the good work.

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